Kathy’s Contact Details
07944 137 248
kathy.gale@kgtherapy.co.uk
I am a warm and thoughtful psychotherapist, counsellor, executive coach and mentor, with over 20 years’ experience. I work with individuals, couples, family members, and with organisations and groups.
I am a humanistic psychotherapist, which is a relational form of therapy. This means that I will be friendly and informal, the same person in the therapy room as I am in the rest of my life. This is based on a belief that people are more likely to flourish when the therapeutic experience is encouraging, authentic and equal.
I am a proactive, straightforward and practical person as well as insightful and supportive. I am trained in a range of different therapeutic methods and I adapt the style of my work to each individual client so that each person can experience therapy in the way that works best for them.
My first career was in book publishing, where I was Senior Editor at Hodder & Stoughton, Editorial Director of Pan Macmillan, Marketing Director of Simon & Schuster and Joint Managing Director of The Women’s Press. I am founder director of Gale & Co, which provides coaching for authors from leading publishing figures. With my colleague, Harriet Spicer, I founded and directed the executive coaching organisation, Working Edge. The common thread in my varied career is supporting people to maximize their personal, professional and creative potential.
Psychotherapy and Counselling with Kathy Gale (Accredited)
When life is a struggle, talking to a skilled and experienced psychotherapist can help. To be properly heard, understood and respected, whatever your dilemma, can be a rare and powerful experience.
If you are low in confidence or self-esteem, struggling with grief or loss, finding it hard to manage your anger, experiencing difference, exclusion and/or alienation, or facing challenges at work, therapy can help you to find rewarding and helpful ways forward. You can increase your happiness and self-worth, manage challenges, improve your relationships, and create a life with more self-awareness, self-acceptance, satisfaction and joy.
With a supportive psychotherapist, couples can find ways through the difficulties of loving relationships. If they are parting, they can be supported to separate and, where relevant, co-parent amicably and constructively. Family members can explore and overcome problems and challenges between them.
I cover all psychotherapeutic and counselling issues, and my specialities include relationships, couples counselling, families, work and career, writing and creativity, sex and sexuality, LGBTQI+, conflict and anger management, childhood sexual abuse, self-esteem, self-worth, anxiety, and dreams.
Please note, since psychotherapy is entirely confidential, I do not ask my therapy or counselling clients to provide me with endorsements. If you would like to see testimonials about me in the other areas of my work, please see the testimonials page of www.galeandco.co.uk.
Areas I work with:
- Anger Management and conflict
- Anxiety and panic attacks
- Bereavement, grief and loss
- Career counselling
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Couples therapy
- Depression
- Eating disorders, Poor body image and problems with food
- Family Issues
- Gender, sexuality/LGBTQ+
- Health problems, illness and terminal illness
- Low self-esteem, low confidence, low self-worth
- Personal impact and presentation skills
- Professional & Workplace Issues
- Relationship Issues
- Sexual or physical abuse in childhood
- Sex, sexuality and sexual issues
- Sexual, physical and emotional abuse
- Stress
Psychotherapy Qualifications and Training:
I am accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
I graduated in Psychotherapy from the Spectrum Centre for Humanistic Psychology (whose training is accredited by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
I remain committed to continued professional development and study. My initial training was 5 years and I have undertaken seventeen years of annual post-graduate psychotherapy training/CPD.
Contact:
You are welcome to either call or email me.
07944 137 248
kathy.gale@kgtherapy.co.uk
Rates:
Counselling and psychotherapy: £85 for individual 50-minute session (£100 for corporate referrals); £95 for couples 60-minute session
Executive coaching and mentoring: £100 for individual 50-minute session (concessions for charities and small organisations)
For Gale & Co writing coaching for individuals and Gale & Co Writers’ Studio coaching groups, see www.galeandco.co.uk